Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
19 December 2006


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 18 December 2006 it purchased for cancellation
130,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 998.3815 pence per share.







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